FLORIDA GETS SMOKING RESULTS.Teenagers have been smoking more than ever, but not in Florida. That state has produced a 54 percent decline in middle school tobacco use over the past two years, and a 24 percent drop among high school students. The program, funded by $200 million from the state's tobacco settlement, has included a major media campaign, with TV ads that attack the tobacco companies as manipulative ma·nip·u·la·tive adj. Serving, tending, or having the power to manipulate. n. Any of various objects designed to be moved or arranged by hand as a means of developing motor skills or understanding abstractions, especially in and deceitful. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. has recommended that states use 25 percent of their tobacco settlement money for anti-smoking campaigns, but estimates that states are now spending an average of 7 percent. Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. and California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). have also recently reported
positive results from their state-funded anti-smoking campaigns.
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